Although Jemima Khan seems to have been seeing quite a bit of her old flame Hugh Grant in London lately, it would appear that she has a rival for his affections on the other side of the Atlantic in the shape of Drew Barrymore.

Tim Walker

10:08AM GMT 14 Feb 2009

When the 48-year-old star of Four Weddings and a Funeral walked into the fashionable Waverly Inn restaurant in New York, I am told that Miss Barrymore, 33, made a beeline for him and they proceeded to "make out" as one native put it.

Facebook friends in higher places

The social networking site Facebook would appear to be moving in mysterious ways.

Four members of the English and Welsh hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church have accounts: the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor; the Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols; the Bishop of Lancaster, Michael Campbell; and the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Kieran Conry.

Spokesmen for the first two say the accounts were opened without their permission. Campbell no longer has an account and his spokesman says the account was set up in the bishop's name some eight months ago without his knowledge or permission and he then instructed that it be removed.

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Bishop Conry says his account was opened by a group of young people he accompanied on a pilgramage to Lourdes. "I am quite relaxed with it," he tells The Tablet. The page lists his "friends" as Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor and Archbishop Nichols, so was he happy with that? "I have more than two friends," he says with a laugh.

Generosity of Madonna's former husband

While his marriage to Madonna was coming to an end as he directed his Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jr, Guy Ritchie showed considerable grace under pressure.

"For one scene the stage hands had to help mock up the massive hull of a ship at Chatham Docks," whispers my man with the clapperboard. "It was a tough, dirty job involving a lot of black paint. When they'd finished the job, Guy arranged for everyone involved to get a fleece jacket thing emblazoned with the words Sherlock Holmes. There was a flat cap, too – just like Mr Ritchie wears." They were lucky they didn't get deer stalkers.